Bypoll results LIVE: Modi, Shah get wake-up call from Kairana before 2019

Kairana by-election results will serve as a test case for a united Opposition against the PM Narendra Modi-led BJP. Catch all the live updates here

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Congress wrests Akali Dal stronghold by huge margin

 

Punjab's ruling Congress won the Shahkot Assembly seat on Thursday by a huge margin of over 38,800 votes, wresting the seat from the Shiromani Akali Dal after over 20 years.

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RJD's Jayant Chaudhary thanks Akhilesh, Mayawati, Rahul for party's win in Kairana

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BJP's Mriganka Singh accepts defeat in Kairana, says alliance has "emerged strong"

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RLD's Begum Tabassum Hasan has won the Kairana Lok Sabha seat in UP, according to reports. She had the backing of Congress, Samajwadi Party and BSP. 

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Kairana has a loud message for Modi-Shah before 2019

 

The Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll result has yet again underlined the challenge that Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine is set to face in 2019 against a united Opposition. The BJP’s loss here is seen as yet another dent in the invincibility cloak of Prime Minister Modi and party chief Shah.

 

With the BJP likely to struggle a repeat of its 2014 performance in much of northern India, the Kairana loss puts into sharper focus Shah’s efforts at expanding the party in areas beyond the Vindhyas and Chota Nagpur plateau, and make inroads in the Coromandel coast states.

 

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AJSU had to face a major embarrassment in Jharkhand's Silli seat as its chief and former state Deputy Chief Minister Sudesh Mahto lost to JMM's Seema Mahto by 13,000 votes. 

 

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In Jharkhand's Gomia, JMM's candidate Babita Devi defeated AJSU nominee Lambodar Mahto by 1300 votes while BJP's nominee Madhavlal Singh stood third on the seat.

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JMM retains Silli and Gomia assembly seats in Jharkhand

JMM retained both Silli and Gomia assembly seats in the by-election, state Chief Electoral Officer L Khiangte said.

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RJD on Thursday won the Jokihat Assembly seat, defeating JD(U) by a huge margin of 41,000 votes. 

 

RJD candidate Shahnawaz Alam defeated JD(U)'s Murshid Alam by over 41,000 votes, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Baiju Nath Kumar said. 

 

Jokihat seat, which is located in the Muslim-dominated Araria district of Bihar, was held by JD(U) during the 2015 state elections.  

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In the Bhandara-Gondiya constituency, BJP candidate Hemant Patle, who was leading in the earlier rounds of counting, suddenly fell behind at 94,000 votes, while Nationalist Congress Party's Madhukar Kukde remained ahead with a tally of over 103,000 votes.

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The ruling BJP in Maharashtra was leading in Palghar but trailing in the Bhandara-Gondiya constituency as counting progressed in the May 28 Lok Sabha bypolls on Thursday.

 

In the available vote-count figures at 1 pm, BJP candidate in Palghar, Rajendra Gavit, notched up over 263,000 votes while his nearest Shiv Sena rival Shriniwas Vanga was trailing at around 237,000 votes.

 

They were followed by the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi's Baliram Jadhav at 208,000 votes and Congress's Damodar Shingada was at a distant fourth position with 47,000 votes. 

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Uttar Pradesh's ruling BJP on Thursday stared at a major electoral upset with the joint Opposition candidate, RLD's Tabassum Hasan, leading by over 39,000 votes in the Kairana Lok Sabha constituency. 

 

Hasan, supported by the Congress, SP and the BSP, established an early lead over BJP's Mriganka Singh right from the beginning to establish an almost invincible lead by noon. After 17 rounds of counting, Hasan polled 321,311 votes, while Mriganka Singh got 282,289 votes, the election office said. 

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Kerala's ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front's (LDF's) Saji Cheriyan on Thursday won the Chengannur Assembly bypoll by a huge margin of 20,956 votes over his nearest Congress rival, officials said. According to the Chief Electoral Office, Cheriyan polled 67,303 votes while the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate D Vijaykumar got 46,347 votes and BJP's P S Sreedharan Pillai came third with 35,270 votes. 

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The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is set to wrest an Assembly seat from the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar where it was leading by over 34,000 votes, officials said on Thursday.

 

After trailing in the initial round of counting, the RJD established a comfortable lead of over 31,000 against JD-U in the bypolls to the Jokihat Assembly seat in Bihar on Thursday, according to the Election Commission officials. 

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The Samajwadi Party on Thursday won the Noorpur Assembly by-poll by 6,211 votes.

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CPI-M was leading with 20,956 votes from the Chengannur Assembly seat, according to news agency ANI.

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CPI-M candidate Saji Cherian, with a lead of around 12,000 votes as counting crossd the halfway mark in the Chengannur Assembly bypoll in Kerala, was heading towards a comfortable victory on Thursday. 

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JMM candidate Seema Mahto was leading over her rival, All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) President Sudesh Mahto, by 660 votes for the Silli Assembly bypoll, after the eighth round of counting. 

 

The votes would be counted over 15 rounds, an election official said.

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BJP candidate Madhavlal Singh was leading over his nearest JMM rival Babita Devi by 8,700 votes after eight rounds of counting for the Gomia Assembly constituency bypoll in Jharkhand, EC sources said.

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